TRADITIONAL TALES GUIDANCE
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1 1 of 5 The National Strategies Primary TRADITIONAL TALES GUIDANCE 1. Derivation and range The genre we identify broadly as traditional stories includes a range of narrative types that originated in the oral storytelling traditions of many cultures, including myths, legends, fairy tales and fables. Passed on from place to place by storytellers and handed down orally from generation to generation before the invention of printing, they relied on predictable story structures and repetitive, patterned language to make them memorable for the teller and listener. Many can be described as folk tales because they originally presented, explained and justified the beliefs of the ordinary folk and were passed on by them. They served important social purposes and helped to forge cultural links between isolated communities before the days of instant communication and fast travel. Traditional stories were a way of sharing kinship, wisdom and experience. They passed on vital knowledge about everyday life (travelling through the forest alone can be dangerous) so many were originally told for children s benefit. They also depicted and exemplified spiritual beliefs and cultural traditions, giving people simple reasons to behave in certain ways. In the days before printed words, these stories (which included prose and verse narratives such as sagas, poems and songs) were at the heart of an individual s cultural inheritance. The stories influenced behaviour and united people in their culture so it was important that content remained constant, another reason for the patterning of structure and language that we associate with them. Successive storytellers might change the details but the core message or moral did not change over time or distance when the stories travelled further and merged with the traditional narratives of other cultures. It was important that the audience listened carefully and remembered the content of these tales, so today they still measure up very well to the criteria we might choose for evaluating a story s quality. They are often humorous, exciting or intriguing. The features that help us to categorise traditional stories tend to be the same ingredients that make them entertaining, memorable and enduring. Traditional stories have continued to develop and change through publication as printed and moving image texts, including live-action films, animations, multimodal texts and games. Modern adaptations sometimes increase the complexity of plot, merge stories from different sources or update the characters and settings. Even so, many new publications for children, including film and ICT texts such as interactive stories, use the same basic structural and linguistic elements as the traditional stories that were their precursors. Most traditional tales use the same broad range of conventions and there is a lot of overlap between different types of traditional tales but myths, legends, fairy tales and fables can be identified as sub-classes. They each tend to have a typical purpose and conform to particular structural and language features.
2 2 of 5 The National Strategies Primary The ways that different kinds of traditional stories use language for their own purpose and audience (vocabulary, patterns and structures, themes and styles) are closely linked with their essential qualities as texts. This makes them useful starting points for children to explore and compare the different effects of each and to try these out in their own writing. The conventions of traditional tales should not be viewed or used as rigid templates because their strengths as narratives derive as much from their diversity as any similarities between them. 2. Theme Traditional tales deal with the big issues in life. Who are we and where do we come from? How do we deal with life s troubles and difficulties? How should we behave? What is the truth? What is our place in the big picture of things? Themes often explore the contrasts between universal concepts and these are frequently embodied as much in the main characters as in the plot: good and evil (Baba Yaga s Daughter); master and servant (Jack and the Giant); rich and poor (The Little Match Girl); wise and foolish (Little Claus and Big Claus); old and young (Blodin the Beast); beautiful and ugly (Beauty and the Beast); mean and generous (Pied Piper); just and unjust (Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady). Other themes include: a quest or search (ostensibly to find something and be rewarded, but usually a metaphor for another kind of search, including the search for truth or self); a journey (often a symbol of self-discovery); trials and forfeits (to test individuals skills and strength, or their human characteristics such as intelligence, patience and endurance); the origins of the Earth, its people and animals; the relationship between people and the seen or unseen world around them (the importance of family and community connections, links between the human world and the world of fairies). The plot of traditional stories usually encourages the reader/listener to explore the moral codes of the characters or examine the values they demonstrate through their actions. A basic and ancient cultural belief, value or message is often the underlying central theme of a traditional tale.
3 3 of 5 The National Strategies Primary 3. Plot and structure Traditional tales often have very distinctive narrative plots and structures that mirror the classic features of oral storytelling. A fairly small range of basic plots crops up again and again but the settings, characters and language details make each story different and memorable. For example, one of the most basic tales can be described as defeating the monster. At the beginning of the story, life is happy for the main character but a monster appears to shatter his or her happiness. The monster is eventually defeated and all is well again by the end of the tale. Many traditional stories fall into this category especially if we include those where the monster that threatens to destroy a happy situation is a metaphorical one such as poverty or disease. The numbers three or seven occur frequently in European traditional tales (Three Billy Goats Gruff, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and these same numbers often influence the structure of the plot. Goldilocks goes to the home of three bears and tries out three things in their cottage. There may be three sons, three terrains to cross, seven wishes to be made or seven things to be found. This structure gives rise to repetitive, sequential organisation and accumulating patterns in the plot. These all help to make the narrative easy to imitate in oral and written form. Typical plots and structures include: cumulative tales (The Enormous Turnip); journey stories (The Odyssey); sequential stories a single event is repeated (Jack and the Beanstalk); wasted wishes stories (The Fisherman and his Wife); problem resolution stories (Anancy and Mr Dry Bone); turning point stories (King Midas); branching stories (The Firebird); circular stories (The Snow Queen); trickster stories (Hodja tales); rags to riches stories (Dick Whittington, Cinderella). Although names and details may be different, the basic plot of many traditional tales appears in more than one culture. For example, the story of a foolish person who wastes their wishes and ends up with nothing reoccurs as a cautionary tale about the dangers of greed. Eat me when I m fatter tales (such as the Norwegian folktale The Three Billy Goats Gruff or the Polish story, The Three Goats ) appear as examples of cleverness overcoming danger. 4. Setting The setting is more often an ambiguous backdrop than a particular place and time. Events generally occur at an unspecified time in the past and in a place that we can easily imagine but cannot place exactly on a map. Specific detail of settings matches the type of narrative; common settings for fairy tales are castles, cottages, gardens and forests while distant landscapes and unspecified islands often feature in myths.
4 4 of 5 The National Strategies Primary The action often moves across more than one country or type of terrain, especially in stories where we follow the hero s journey. These are sometimes revisited under different circumstances on his or her return journey. Some stories move the action to and fro between the real world and a fantasy world, encouraging the reader to compare or contrast the actions of the humans and the mythological characters. 5. Character Characters are often portrayed as larger-than-life and their physical characteristics described in some detail. The frequent use of archetypes adds to the familiarity and predictability of the plot and can enhance a reader s experience. For example, in folk tales it is often clear from the outset who is the good character and who is not to be trusted. When we recognise a stereotypical villain entering the scene, the plot thickens and the suspense mounts. These characters tend to perform a standard purpose in the way the plot unfolds. They often have little depth or development over time. For example, few villains in traditional tales reform their ways. (This is a noticeable and interesting difference between traditional stories and some other more complex and sophisticated narratives that children will meet as readers, viewers and listeners.) On the other hand the simplicity of characterisation, the predictable actions and extreme values of traditional archetypes make them accessible to children, especially for the purposes of imitation in their own independent writing or retelling. The most common characters in traditional stories include: the trickster (clever but sometimes up to no good); the third child (apparently lazy or foolish but wins the day due to a kind heart and clever actions); the King (old and wise, cruel or foolishly proud); the Father (may be boastful or proud); the Mother; the Stepmother (often portrayed as cruel); the Queen (often plays a limited role); the Monster (the embodiment of evil); the Mentor (a wise person who holds important knowledge or gives the main character a helping hand); kind animals or creatures (help the main character in return for a kind act); wicked animals or creatures (trolls, goblins, wolves, foxes that pose a threat). Principal characters in many traditional tales are often male, reflecting the male-dominated social and political culture of their origins and this observation can be an interesting historical discussion point. Later versions go some way towards redressing the gender balance and make useful comparisons.
5 5 of 5 The National Strategies Primary 6. Style It is unsurprising that styles differ in stories that have origins in the oral traditions of many contrasting cultures. Style also sometimes differs between a version for oral storytelling and a more literary, published version that has been adapted over time for the written mode. Even so, the poetic, resonant language of the original oral stories is not usually lost in twenty-first century adaptations. Their imagery, structures and linguistic patterns continue to provide enjoyment, support memorisation and encourage colourful retelling. Myths, legends, fairy tales and fables all have their own familiar style but some stylistic features appear in most types of traditional tales: rich, evocative vocabulary often with layered adjectives (the great big enormous turnip... a wise old king...); memorable language use (use of rhyme and alliteration: I ll huff and I ll puff... Fee, fi, fo, fum...); use of rhythm and repetition techniques such as refrains (He pulled and he pulled... Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair...); formulaic openings and endings (Once upon a time... Long ago and far away... And that s the way it was, and that s the way it is to this good day.); imagery is used heavily (simile, metaphor and symbolism evoke a particular mood, enhance a detailed description or help to create multiple meanings). Traditional retellings sometimes retain the archaic vocabulary and clause patterns of much older versions. For example, they use verb forms and nouns no longer in general use and they position words and clauses within sentences in ways that sound unfamiliar today. Said the troll, Who is that trap-trapping over my bridge? T was a dark, dark night... Jack smote the giant on his bald pate. How glad I am that... from whence the voice came... Oh no, said he, I care neither for your jewels nor your crown. Do you perchance have a crumb to spare...? That which you promised must you perform. Many leagues from the town, in a great forest, there dwelt a poor woodcutter. They had but one daughter... He arose and went outside.
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